Chris Burn

Sheffield

Head of Business and Features Editor at The Yorkshire Post

Yorkshire Post business & features editor. Find me on Threads (https://t.co/2HpEV1pqSq) and/or BlueSky (https://t.co/c8IzzWB9FP)

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Philips Trust Corporation: £300,000 Covid loan paid to investment scandal firm unlikely to be repaid

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

Administrators have revealed that a Government-backed bank loan paid to Philips Trust Corporation (PTC) shortly before it collapsed is “unlikely” to be repaid. Four building societies have already committed to paying more than £40m to customers who were victims of the collapse of PTC.
How Yorkshire town centres can keep their M&S branches - from the horse's mouth

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

Indeed the programme is so packed that it is simply impossible to see every discussion you’d like to but one particularly fascinating event I was able to attend took place with Marks & Spencer chairman and retail industry veteran Archie Norman. Mr Norman is no stranger to Leeds as a former chief executive of Asda and opened his 45-minute discussion with business journalist Graham Ruddick with an amusing anecdote of heading to the city for the first time to start his role with the supermarket.
KFC to set to open new restaurants in Yorkshire and upgrade existing sites under £1.5bn investment plan

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

The fast-food giant has announced it intends to invest £1.5bn in creating more than 7,000 new jobs in the UK and Ireland in the next five years and intends to add a further 500 restaurants to its portfolio by 2035. A company spokesperson told The Yorkshire Post this region is part of the expansion plan.
Asda temporarily halts plan for driver-facing 'spy' cameras in home delivery vans

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

The company had been considering the use of the cameras on the grounds that it would improve driver safety. Under the plan, cameras would be operational while delivery van engines were running and Asda argued that the technology would better protect drivers by being able to demonstrate that in the event of an accident they were not on a mobile phone.
Rachel Reeves to reveal business rates cuts for high street firms in next Budget

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

Jim McMahon, Minister for Local Government and English Devolution, told The Yorkshire Post that the Government has already set out the principle of its plan to help high street businesses, funded through higher taxation on distribution centres used by online giants.
Reform's Luke Campbell to sign 'championing Yorkshire' partnership with Labour mayors

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

Reform mayor Luke Campbell is to sign an agreement to work in partnership on ‘championing Yorkshire’ with his three Labour counterparts in the region, The Yorkshire Post can reveal. Mr Campbell’s office said that the new Hull and East Yorkshire mayor will sign up to a pre-existing ‘White Rose Agreement’ in the near future.
'No reason we can't': Marks & Spencer chair says firm wants to double food sales as it takes on traditional supermarkets

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

The company said in 2022 it intended to open more than 100 new food halls around the country by April 2026 as part of a £500m investment programme also involving the closure of dozens of its traditional town centre sites selling its full range of products. Mr Norman, who was chief executive of Asda in the 1990s, told the UKREiiF real estate conference in Leeds that in the last four years M&S has been the nation’s fastest growing food retailer alongside Aldi and Lidl.
Northern mayors 'can work as a pack' to rebalance nation's political and economic power, says Devolution Minister

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

Cross-party Northern mayors can work together “as a pack” to rebalance the nation’s economy, Devolution Minister Jim McMahon has told The Yorkshire Post. Every region of Yorkshire now has its own mayor after Reform’s Luke Campbell was elected this month for Hull and East Yorkshire, joining the three existing Labour mayors of Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and David Skaith in West, South and North Yorkshire respectively.
Bradford firm TL Dallas signs up to Swinton Estate's eco-friendly Nourish partnership

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

TL Dallas has joined Nourish, a corporate partnership to help companies reduce their carbon footprint and become more environmentally friendly. As a member of Nourish, TL Dallas can invest in the Swinton Estate’s Carbon Plus credits and participate in a range of environmental investment schemes and local community projects.
Leeds Digital Festival founder Stuart Clarke is stepping down as director 'with mixture of sadness and excitement'

2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Burn

Over the past decade, Stuart Clarke has grown Leeds Digital Festival from an idea in a pub to a major bi-annual event attended by thousands of people – receiving an MBE for his efforts in the process. But now he has decided the time is right to step down as festival director after the event takes place for the 10th year this autumn.

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